NewsReal Blog’s interview with Howard Bloom illuminates man’s deep urge to compete.

Click here for the video of part 1 of this interview.
Click here for my FrontPage Magazine review of this and the author’s other books.
Today I’m offering parts 2 and 3 of my dialogue with author Howard Bloom. In these clips Howard takes us far back to the origins of life on this planet to show [...]

On July 24, I wrote here at NRB about Bishop Olmsted and CCHD funding opposition to the Arizona Immigration Law and posted the link to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Facebook page. For four full days, while it remained on the page, this story prompted quite a lot of civil discussion and [...]

Well, no.  Of course, they are not Nazis.  That is, they are not members of the National Socialist German Workers Party (that’s not quite possible, now is it?) nor are they modern day Neo-Nazi white supremacists.  They are, for the most part, leftists who claim to hate war, favor environmental regulation, women’s rights, gay rights, [...]

Honesty and fairness require me to point out that, when a discussion had just been launched on his Journolist between members who wanted to coordinate media narratives to help Barack Obama win the presidential elections, Erza Klein attempted to squelch it.
That’s great of him. Major props to the Washington Post blogger.
With that disclaimer out of [...]

This week Hephzibah Anderson was on The Colbert Report to discuss how she went without sex for a whole year–well, sort of—as Colbert said, she was on third base leaning towards home.
Anyway, she now feels that people, especially women, need to wait longer to have sex. No, she’s not arguing in favor of abstinence, but [...]

SAN JOSÉ, Calif., July 26, 2010—Nearly three years after terminating her over her protected classroom speech, the San José/Evergreen Community College District (SJCCD) has agreed to pay adjunct professor June Sheldon $100,000 in lost earnings in exchange for dismissal of her First Amendment lawsuit. In 2007, Sheldon had led a brief discussion about the nature/nurture [...]

U of I to review removal of religion professor Teacher barred after discussion of Catholic position on homosexuality By Manya A. Brachear, Tribune reporter Faculty at the University of Illinois will review the case of a religion professor removed from the classroom after a student labeled his explanation of the Roman Catholic teaching on homosexuality [...]

Perhaps predictably, the Landmarks Commission hearing today to consider landmark status for 45 Park Place, the proposed site of the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque overlooking Ground Zero, was about much more than just whether the building at 45 Park Place merited landmark status or not. It quickly became a public forum…

The Helena Montana school board’s new health curriculum for students K-12 includes teaching about homosexuality in first grade and different types of sex in fifth grade. The board has invited the public to a July 13th discussion of the new program.
In kindergarten and first grade the little ones will learn the usual Progressive fare. There [...]